Chapter 24 Treasure Hunt in the Village
Liu Ye helped Bai Zilin re-bandage his leg, and the two sat on the grass, chatting idly. Before they knew it, it was the next day. Village Chief Zhao drove an oxcart with his family on it, followed by a group of villagers, some walking, some pushing small wooden carts, carrying large and small bags, and setting off with their families.
The Bai and Liu families were among them, and as they passed by the dilapidated courtyard, they couldn't help but look at the two with schadenfreude.
Bai Shuisheng was about to spit when he swallowed back, unwilling to waste his saliva. He hadn't even had a drink yet, and he couldn't afford to waste any more saliva.
Liu Ye curled her lip, thinking to herself, "What are you so smug about? You're going to escape famine, not to enjoy yourself, humph!" She had seen TV dramas about escaping famine, and the journey was arduous. The most painful thing was the feet, and the most deadly thing was the lack of water and food. If you got sick, you wouldn't even have the strength to dig a hole and bury yourself; you could only lie down by the roadside and wait to die.
Once the villagers left, the village became quiet. Liu Ye's curiosity was piqued again: "Brother Bai and the others have all left. Let's go treasure hunting in the village. It would be best if we could find you two walking sticks, hehe. It would be even better if we could find some silver."
Bai Zilin looked at her with eyes full of doting affection and said, "Okay, let's go treasure hunting."
Bai Zilin brought Liu Ye to Village Chief Zhao's house. The gate was locked, but that didn't stop Liu Ye. She kicked the gate open, and the high courtyard wall collapsed as well.
Liu Ye turned back to Bai Zilin with a guilty look on her face: "Hehehe, a wall built of mud is never sturdy!"
Bai Zilin... Liu Ye is so strong! (#Д) "Indeed... it's not very sturdy. Let's go inside..."
Liu Ye and Bai Zilin walked around the front and back yards of Village Chief Zhao's house, but found nothing useful. All the doors in the rooms were locked. This time, Liu Ye didn't dare to kick the doors. She grabbed the lock and pulled hard, and the lock opened.
This scene opened Bai Zilin's eyes again. Liu Ye's strength was truly amazing. He might not even be able to open this lock. This little girl is awesome. The Liu family really lost a treasure, but it's a good thing they lost it, because he found a treasure.
When Liu Ye entered the house, she found that Village Chief Zhao's house was indeed better than others. The chairs and benches looked nice, and even the cabinets on the kang and the floor were nice. She opened all the cabinets on the floor and found that they were full of tattered clothes. After searching for a long time, she still couldn't find the legendary silver. So she climbed onto the kang and searched the cabinets on the kang, but she found nothing there either.
At that moment, Bai Zilin entered from outside, leaning on a cane: "Did you find anything?"
Liu Ye shook her head in disappointment and jumped off the kang (a heated brick bed): "I didn't find anything. The closet is full of tattered clothes."
Bai Zilin had already anticipated this. Who wouldn't take something valuable with them when they leave? He accompanied her into the village to search for treasure just to keep her entertained and make her happy: "The room next door is the room of Village Chief Zhao's father. There might be something there."
Upon hearing this, Liu Ye immediately became interested and quickly went to the next room. Bai Zilin smiled and shook his head, then followed closely behind. He sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) and watched Liu Ye jumping around searching.
Village Chief Zhao's father went mad a couple of years ago, so there's no way there'd be anything in his house. However, there were quite a few random things, with boxes and cabinets piled up halfway up the room.
Liu Ye opened a cabinet, but there was nothing there. She opened a box, but there was nothing there either. She searched through all the cabinets on the kang (a heated brick bed), but still found nothing. Frustrated, she sat down on the kang and said, "There's nothing here. The Zhao family is too poor. No, they took too little."
Bai Zilin chuckled and touched his nose: "Take your time looking. If Village Chief Zhao's family doesn't have anything, then no one else's family will have anything either."
Liu Ye touched the kang (a heated brick bed) under her buttocks. Something was wrong. Something was wrong with the kang itself. She quickly got up and squatted on the kang, feeling around with her hands. "Brother Bai, something's wrong with this kang. I want to lift the mat to take a look."
Bai Zilin got up from the kang (a heated brick bed) and stood to the side: "You see."
Liu Ye rolled the kang mat from one end of the kang to the other and discovered that where she was sitting was not a mud mat, but a square board, like a hidden compartment. Bai Zilin also noticed something was wrong and quickly came over to look: "There really is something, Liu Ye, quickly open it and see what it is?"
Liu Ye threw the kang mat on the ground, patted the dust off her hands, lifted the board on the kang, and saw a wooden box inside. The box was locked with a small padlock. She took the wooden box out, put it on the kang, and pulled the padlock open.
"Brother Bai, is there some kind of trap in this box?"
Bai Zilin smiled and shook his head, then reached out and opened the box. Inside, he saw a bag. He picked up the bag and poured it onto the kang (a heated brick bed), revealing a gold ingot. He was instantly astonished, his eyes widening in surprise: "Gold!"
When Liu Ye saw the gold, her eyes lit up with excitement. She picked up the gold from the kang (a heated brick bed) and weighed it in her hand: "It's quite heavy. How much is this, Brother Bai?"
Bai Zilin took the gold from her hand and weighed it in his hand: "This is ten taels of gold. One tael of gold is ten taels of silver. Ten taels of gold is one hundred taels of silver. My God, the Zhao family is so rich. Oh right, I remember now, the Zhao family's father was a steward in a wealthy family. This gold...? This gold was probably stolen by him."
Liu Ye thought so too, and Bai Zilin stuffed the gold back into Liu Ye's hand: "What you found is yours, keep it. We'll use it to settle down in the south later, and then we can look for other things. Maybe we can find something better."
Liu Ye didn't stand on ceremony. She put the gold into her pocket and stored it in her spatial storage. Then she jumped off the kang and went with Bai Zilin to search for treasure next door. However, they didn't find anything there. The two of them searched three or four more houses, but still found nothing. However, they did find a pair of walking sticks.
Bai Zilin tried it out and found it quite suitable, so he threw away the wooden stick and used a cane instead. As the sun set, Liu Ye searched every house in Shizigou Village. She didn't go to Old Liu's house, nor did she go to Old Bai's house.
Liu Ye and Bai Zilin returned to the abandoned house, and she happily showed off her day's find: "12345, 34, wow, Brother Bai, I found 34 copper coins, three pairs of scissors, seven strings of thread, and 15 needles. That's perfect, saving me from having to buy them. Otherwise, I was thinking of going to town to buy them."
“Brother Bai, everyone in the village has gone to escape the famine. People in the town should have gone to escape the famine too, right? We can’t have all the wells in our village dried up while the wells in the town remain dry.”
Bai Zilin knew what she was up to as soon as he heard her voice: "That's right, the people in town will definitely have to leave, but some will stay, like some old people. They don't want to die far from home, so they stay and wait to die. You want to go to town to search for treasure?"
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